When I was about 6 or so I told my dad that I didn't want to eat spare ribs anymore cause I didn't want to hurt pigs. My dad replied, "Don't worry, they are only his spare ribs, he's got another set." I believed this for longer than I care to admit...
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My cousin thought ribs at restaurants were people ribs.Anon
- I thought baby back ribs were from actual babiesAnon
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- I used to believe that santa had a spare key to our house because we had no chimney.— Karl Andrade (Bombay, India)
- I believed that pigs could actually fly. I'm 13 and found out this year that they can't.— Boy I'm Blonde
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon